Errors

Three tales of events in small towns in Poland generated by errors which found grave consequences. The last story, told by Meyer Eunuch, tells of a brilliant scholar & rabbi who ran a yeshiva in Belchow. He worked for years on a book with the help of his prize student, Gabriel. Gabriel went to Warsaw with the manuscript to oversee its printing. When he returned with the book, Rabbi Berish found an error & screamed at Gabriel "So you want to be a rabbi? A shoemaker you should be." Gabriel secretly went off and became a shoemaker, returning a year later to practice his trade and study with the rabbi at night. He succeeded Rabbi Berish after his death while continuing his trade. He advised his students to take up a trade.

Under the southern portion of the city exists its negative image: a network of more than two hundred miles of galleries, rooms, and chambers.

As the years passed, Tom grew more entrenched in his homelessness. He was absorbed in lofty fantasies and private missions, aware of the basest necessities and the most transcendent abstractions, and almost nothing in between.